Re: SATA_SIL works with 2.6.7-bk8 seagate drive, but oops

[Jeff Garzik]

George Georgalis wrote:
> I was able to dd ~140 GB with SATA_SIL today, on a stock bk kernel, till
> I ran out of disk, no errors. which was a pleasant unexpected surprise.
>
> but when I checked "Timing buffered disk reads" it was around 25 MB/sec
> not the ~52 MB/sec I saw before with the oops. The odd thing was this
> disk was not in the blacklist so I don't know why it was running slower.


Try mounting a filesystem, unmounting it, and then doing the timing.

	Jeff


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